(LAVOCHKIN) LA-5
A rugged and versatile Soviet fighter. A formidable opponent to all of its contemporaries at low altitudes. Produced in 1942 with 1021 airplanes built in total. Read More
(The planes below are not arranged in any particular order. To find out about each airplane, please click on them)
Devyatkin’s White-18 “Za Gal’chenko!”
Devyatkin’s White-18, ‘Za Galchenko’.
21-st IAP, 3-rd Air Army, Kalininskiy Front, circa late June/July 1943
Flown by the commander of a flight of 21-st IAP, leutenant Nikolay Dmitrievich Devyatkin.
(Scarlet?)-52
(Scarlet?)-52
193-th IAP, 302-nd IAD, 4-th IAK, Rezerv Stavki VKG, circa February 1943, (Possibly) airfield of the 2-nd ZIAP MVO in Seyma, Gorkiy (Today’s Nizhniy Novgorod) region.
Flown by an unknown pilot.
(Savitskiy’s?) White-60
(Savitskiy’s?) White-60 ‘Eskadrilya Valeriy Chkalov’
3-rd IAK, (Possibly) April-May 1943, Kuban
(Possibly) Flown by the commander of the 3-rd IAK, General-major Yevgfeniy Yakovlevich Savitskiy
Gorovets’s White-73
Gorovets’s White-73 ‘Eskadril’ya Valeriy Chkalov’
88th GIAP, 8th GIAD, 5th IAK, 2nd Air Army, Voronezh Front. July 5-6th 1943, Belgorod region.
Flown by the deputy commander of the 1st squadron, Guards senior lieutenant, Aleksandr Konstantinovich Gorovets.
Serov’s White-66 “Eskadril’ya Valeriy Chkalov”
Serov’s White-66 ‘Eskadrilya Valeriy Chkalov’
159th IAP, 275th IAP, 13th Air Army, Leningrad Front, Summer 1943
Flown by the deputy squadron commander, (future) Hero of the Soviet Union, lieutenant Vladimir Georgievich Serov